Transcript for #bitcoin-dev 2018/01/07

i've got a wallet running, but it's frequently maxing out CPU even though my host has 6 cores. can someone explain, or point to more info about, the bitcoind options of "par", and/or help me understand how I can have my wallet run more efficiently?

so, pardon if this is ignorant, but i'm looking at the latest version of the bitcoin project, and i'm wondering if there is a discrete section of the code that deals with the specifics of the bitcoin coin itself. my hope is that it's within a narrow set of source files such that i can transplant what I have been given for this other coin. is this possible? i can't imagine that the specifics of BTC are peppered throughout the proj